Amazon Boosts Investment in AI Startup Anthropic by $2.75 Billion
Amazon Boosts Investment in AI Startup Anthropic by $2.75 Billion
By Joseph Pisani
作者：约瑟夫·皮萨尼
$Amazon (AMZN.US)$ said it has invested an additional $2.75 billion in the artificial-intelligence startup Anthropic, a major investment from a tech giant looking to compete with $Microsoft (MSFT.US)$, $Alphabet-A (GOOGL.US)$ and others in the AI arms race.
$亚马逊 (AMZN.US)$ 表示已向人工智能初创公司Anthropic额外投资27.5亿美元，这是一家希望与之竞争的科技巨头的重大投资 $微软 (MSFT.US)$， $谷歌-A (GOOGL.US)$ 以及人工智能军备竞赛中的其他人。
Amazon has now invested a total of $4 billion in Anthropic after making a $1.25 billion initial investment in the company in September. Amazon said it has a minority ownership position in Anthropic.
亚马逊在9月份对Anthropic进行了12.5亿美元的初始投资后，现已向该公司总共投资了40亿美元。亚马逊表示，它在Anthropic拥有少数股权。
The funding marks Amazon's largest investment in another company since the online retailer was founded nearly 30 years ago. Google agreed last October to invest up to $2 billion in Anthropic.
这笔资金标志着亚马逊自将近30年前在线零售商成立以来对另一家公司的最大一笔投资。谷歌去年10月同意向Anthropic投资高达20亿美元。
Tech companies and venture capitalists have been throwing money at AI startups following the success of Open AI's ChatGPT, with investors and analysts increasingly believing the latest boom in AI is sustainable. More than $29 billion was invested in generative AI companies last year, according to research firm PitchBook. Microsoft has agreed to invest $13 billion in OpenAI.
继Open AI的ChatGPT取得成功之后，科技公司和风险投资家一直在向人工智能初创公司投入资金，投资者和分析师越来越相信人工智能的最新繁荣是可持续的。根据研究公司PitchBook的数据，去年向生成式人工智能公司投资了超过290亿美元。微软已同意向OpenAI投资130亿美元。
Anthropic, which was founded in 2021, offers an AI assistant called Claude that competes with OpenAI's ChatGPT. The company is led by siblings Dario and Daniela Amodei, who both used to work at OpenAI.
Anthropic成立于2021年，提供了一款名为Claude的人工智能助手，可与OpenAI的ChatGPT竞争。该公司由兄弟姐妹达里奥和丹妮拉·阿莫迪领导，他们都曾在OpenAI工作。
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